30 July 2011

New jewelry in the studio+ where to find it elsewhere in Portland

Happy New Moon.
Plant your seeds of intention today.
Here are a few new designs:
Some are on their way to Radish Underground, where I will be the featured artist of August, and some will find a home over at Noun, where Stephanie has carried my work for almost 5 years now-you can always find a huge selection of my classic pieces there, but now she'll have a collection of my colorful glass and stone hand-hammered bronze hoops.
I will be away from the shop+studio from August 2-8th, so if you are hoping for a new piece of sword+fern, please stop by either one of those two nice shops and say hello, they both will have a good amount to choose from.
These new additions to the Underground Moongarden collection were inspired by music I've been listening to and in love with lately..Fleet Foxes and Austra. I got the chance to see both of them live last weekend. I wanted to make some pieces that feel like their songs; rampant and valiant and enthusiastic.




All the anger's lost
Freed from the beat and the pulse
Laughing like a fool
Playing for the heart and the soul
And the soul

Capture something red

Paste it to the edge of your bed
Someone will be there
Someone who will know what it says
What it says
    -Austra







1930's glass eye and triangles, turquoise, amethyst, aquamarine, jasper, copper, pyrite


recycled grey glass, volcanic lava,fire agate, jasper, howlite skull,pyrite


fossils,howlite skull, rusty hardware, recycled grey glass, copper, volcanic lava,jasper

teal recycled glass,copper,agate mother of pearl,fossil, pink jasper



If I know only one thing
It's that every thing that I see
Of the world outside is so inconceivable
Often I barely can speak
Yeah I'm tongue tied and dizzy
And I can't keep it to myself
What good is it to sing helplessness blues?
Why should I wait for anyone else?

-Fleet Foxes




22 July 2011

Happy Summer! Shop's closed Sat.7/23 for a tiny vaycay.


i'm off to the wild northwest corners to enjoy friends, family, and music outdoors.
the shop will be closed tomorrow- saturday, july 23rd.
see you on tuesday!

21 July 2011

Thistle Top Farm Stand today!

Clea is here with LOTS of extra beautiful veggies fresh from her Portland gardens.
Today she has Green beans-lettuce-beets-zucchinni-squash blossoms
COME now!




This song goes out to our Pacific Northwest Summer Weather

Harold Melvin +the Bluenotes- If you don't know me by now

.. I love you rain or shine.I know you too well!

19 July 2011

Hours this week, closed July 20+23

HELLO!
The shop + studio will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday July 20, and Saturday, July 23.
Normal hours(12-6) Thursday 21 and Friday 22.
Thistle Top Farm stand on Thursday afternoon from 3ish til 5ish!

thank you for being YOU

15 July 2011

New Arrivals: Jewelry, Paper, Ceramics,Vintage, Apothecary



paper bowls from up in the air somewhere, chicago


beautiful dusty silver vintage lead weights in assorted sizes
  new sword+fern jewelry:
yellow skull+quartz bracelet


'wizard' antique tag, smoky quartz bracelet


recycled glass grey pyramids

black pyramid+ocean blue sword


purple,aqua,green,grey swords






purple,sky blue, grey sword earrings, new smaller sizes






sea urchins and ocean blue swords


handmade wooden and acrylic rings by sarah ann baker, minneapolis


ocean and sky circle ceramic wall hangings by ali gibbons, chicago




carry -alls by zanna printed textiles, portland



new-sword+fern bronze hammered earrings with colorful gemstones+vintage glass




bronze+flourite



aquamarine post earrings

moss agate post earrings



pyrite post earrings


jasper post earrings


goldstone post earrings



new in the apothecary from shayne case: sacred space energy clearing spray-with essences of wild african sage,smoky quartz, tourmaline, lavender. more of shayne's liquid sunshine+love manifest flower essences are here too!

towels from zanna printed textiles

sword+fern bracelets




summery colors of the sailor's knot bracelets



vintage bakelite oversized sunshine yellow hoops

vintage gold posts

vintage enameled bird posts


intricate,delicate colorful shapes on cards from paper designer essimar, chicago












magic is pyramidically attracting you to me